Welcome to The Poetry Company
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20+ Years
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100+ Projects
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1,800+ Poets Commissioned
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43,600+ Poems Created
Featured Theme
Find Your New Favourite Love Poem
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Edge Of The Ceramic-Rimmed-Potted Earth
By Natalia Figueroa Barrosoyour hardcover copy of Love in the Time of Cholera
rests on my nightstand like your bones
rest in peace wrapped in the soil of our homeland
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from Omnia Sunt Communia
By Snack Syndicate, Astrid Lorange, Andrew BrooksTo push onto and into, as a screw bears down on its thread.
Marcus sings, in the morning I surround you.
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Love is a four letter word
By Stacks Poetsby Ondine Evans
What is love?
A soft kiss on my lips,
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Featured Projects
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Youth Poet Laureate
The Poetry Company is building Australia’s first Youth Poet Laureate Program for poets aged 18-25. We’ll elevate the nation’s most brilliant young poets, embed their voices in public life, and gather audiences to enjoy their work. -
MAD Poetry
We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill. MAD Poetry creates a safe writing space for emerging voices with a lived/living experience of mental health issues to express how they see the world. -
Poem Forest 2026
Poem Forest is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open!
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After 23 years, Red Room Poetry is becoming The Poetry Company.
The organisation has grown significantly in scale, reach and ambition since 2003. The new name reflects who we are today and where we’re going next. Our name is changing, but our purpose remains the same: to make poetry visible, accessible and relevant for all.
Read more about why we changed our name here.